Black Light Ping Pong with Shepard Fairey Spinning–RSVP
Black light! Ping pong! Shepard Fairey DJ-ing! Plus Ryan McGinness’ new book, Women: New (Re)Presentations! All of this at the Standard Hotel Downtown! What a way to spend a Thursday evening! RSVP is a must (mcginniss@standardhotel.com) for extreme revel which begins at 8pm. Eschew basic black and go for for the glow!
Beyond Eden: See It Sunday!
Beyond Eden was jammed full last night with art lovers taking in this art fair featuring three major New Contemporary galleries from the Westside and San Francisco’s Spoke Art Gallery. Beyond Eden continues today from noon to 5pm at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, one of the loveliest spots in spots…
Beyond Eden: Multi-Gallery Show Celebrates New Contemporary Art
L.A.’s New Contemporary art scene–think Pop Surrealism, conceptual narrative, low brow, interpretive representational; you know, Los Angeles art!–gets its fourth showcasing in the historical, and very LA setting, Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, Oct. 12 and 13, 2013. Beyond Eden, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park in East Hollywood, …
Artisanal L.A. at LA Mart
This weekend at LA Mart, Artisanal L.A. brings together community shopping, tasting, programming and learning experiences, showcasing Los Angeles’ finest local, sustainable, handmade edibles and home goods. Along with a pop-up urban garden, lectures, workshops ranging from pickling, cocktails, and baking to butchering with Lindy and Grundy and the intricacies of the Home Food Act,…
Artworks for the Cure at Barker Hangar October 11-13
Artworks for the Cure is a contemporary, eclectic, edgy and offbeat three day art show/sale benefiting the TJ Martell Foundation and its mission to fund innovative medical research focused on finding cures for leukemia, cancer and AIDS. Locally, the TJ Martell Foundation funds research at Children’s Hospital. October 11 through 13, 2013, Barker Hangar at…
Street Art: A Ride-Along with Bleepbloop and Thrashbird
A while back, Cindy Schwarzstein introduced me to street artist Bleepbloop at Le Summer Street Art exhibit at Lexington Social House in Hollywood. Bleepbloop and I got to talking, discussing street art, live art, and expression. We exchanged our info and he disappeared. Late the one night, I get a text from Bleepbloop. Would I…
Urban Exploration: Field Trip Day Pasadena via Team Cartwheel Art
Congregating in Old Pasadena’s Mercantile Alley, Team Cartwheel Art (initially only three members strong) set off to explore historical landmarks along the “Choose-Your-Own-Adventure”-style map provided by the organizers of Field Trip, on eof our strategic partners. The first stop designated by Team Cartwheel Art – Cindy Schwarzstein, Chuckles Risos and myself, was the Guinness Book…
Gary Baseman’s “Mythical Homeland”
Gary Baseman’s autumn solo show at Venice’s Shulamit Gallery, “Mythical Homeland,” opens Oct. 5, 2013. In the exhibition, he creates another nostalgic installation honoring his family and home; an extension of the narrative he created at this year’s retrospective “The Door is Always Open” at the Skirball Cultural Center. In this fall’s exhibition, a 3-D…
Van Saro and Danni Shinya Luo at La Luz de Jesus Gallery
On October 4, 2013, La Luz de Jesus Gallery opens two exhibitions: “What a Wonderful World” features artist Van Saro’s translations of street life; and “Vanitas 13,” featuring the feminine watercolor works of Danni Shinya Luo. The opening reception for both shows is from 8 to 11pm, and both exhibitions will be on view through…
Beyond Eden Sneak Peek!
Beyond Eden! Oh, what those words imply–the knowledge of good and evil, the struggle to make one’s mark in a harsh world, and the desire to return to a paradise lost. All of that is implicit in Beyond Eden, the two day art fair at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park, October…
Abbot Kinney Festival in Venice Beach
Once called Main Street, Abbott Kinney Blvd in Venice, CA was renamed to honor the neighborhood’s quixotic founder who envisioned the area as a paradise for arts and culture, grafting the canals and an amusement park on the marshy swamplands. Venice has gone through many transitions since it was founded as recreation area in 1905,…